Creating Community: Finding Meaning in the Place We Live

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George West lived and worked with the Institute of Cultural Affairs in communities in the inner city of Chicago and in rural villages in Venezuela and Guatemala, helping to establish community development projects in 24 time zones around the world. He was on a team to set up the International Exposition of Rural Development in India in 1984, where community practitioners from sixty nations shared approaches that work. George holds degrees in sociology and theology and an honorary doctorate in public service. He now lives on the pacific coast of Mexico as part of a nine-family experiment in living lightly on the land using solar energy, catching rain water and growing a food forest for local sustainability. He shops in a nearby village riding his four wheel motorbike.